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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
awards, buildings, scholarships, a professorship, and even a hockey tournament bear McArthur’s name. In 2013, he received the Order of Canada, a prestigious civilian honor, and last year he accepted the Harvard Medal. Now 83 and retired,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
execution of that strategy. Considering the limited free time an athlete like Sharapova has in a year filled with training sessions and tournaments across the globe—less than 20 days remain for sponsorship commitments—I found it... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
"We're trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business," said Lakhani, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
called his wife, Breeda, to confirm that they were hosting a dinner party that weekend for some friends from Ireland who were in town for a golf tournament Dubai Duty Free was supporting. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
Kennedy-Levy Associates, but we were about 25, 30 years ahead of our time in marketing women's basketball. So we had accomplished a lot, amazingly. We got some major companies to sponsor tournaments and awards, but still, I didn't see... View Details
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shows, exhibitions featuring planes in flight and on the ground, and meets took place in several parts of the country. Candid shots feature biplanes, monoplanes, and gliders on the ground and in flight. Locations include the International Aviation View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
American Youth Football National Championships in 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The tournament also presented leadership challenges as some of the team’s paperwork was mishandled by administrators. As a result, the team arrived in Orlando... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
School and the NASA Tournament Lab, many organizations "are finding that making open innovation work can be more complicated than it looks." Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conducted with two of its sponsors and five independent experts. The interviews were conducted beginning in 2003, over the four EURO project life cycles starting in 2000, with a primary focus on the tournaments taking place in 2016. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
a wheelchair handball player for the Dutch National team and competed at the European Handball Tournament in Croatia. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, offers insight into what it means to be a member of a crew, with the hard... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
respectively, for the NASA Tournament Lab, a new online project designed to tackle complex computational problems by setting up competitions among scientists to come up with solutions. But the findings from their study can be broadly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
working hours by an average of 5.4 percent on days with extreme rain. Meanwhile, professional CEOs showed a positive (but not significant) 3.8 percent increase in hours worked. The effect of the cricket tournament was a different story.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
incentives only to exemplary employees. Such plans incorporate elements of tournaments (through the selection of employees chosen largely on the basis of past performance but incorporating some managerial discretion) and linear incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne